MDDM Ch. 50 I Am That Which I Am

[David Morris]

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>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>    "'Aye, some of us have never seen him, only heard
>his steps on the nights when there is no Moon, or his
>voice, speaking from above the only words he
>knows,--"Eyeh asher Eyeh,"'-- in on which, in Tones
>hush'd, though ominous, the other now join.
>    "'That is, "I am that which I am,"' helpfully
>translates a somehow nautical-looking Indiv. with
>gigantick Fore-Arms, and one eye ever a-Squint from
>the Smoke of his Pipe.
>    "'Tho' Rashi in his Commentary has, 'I will be what
>I will be,' as the Tense is ambiguous between present
>and future.'
>    "'Isn't that what God said to Moses?' Dixon
>inquires.
>    "'Exodus 3:14.  'Tis what the Indians say to you,
>if you go far enough west,-- being the Lost Tribes of
>Israel out there, whose Creature this is.'" (M&D, Ch.
>50, p. 486)
>
>
>Exodus 3:14
>
>"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,
>Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM
>hath sent me unto you."


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